Sentence examples for what humour from inspiring English sources

What humour brings to it is the 'humaneness' of it".

I don't think she knew what humour was.

And even if the gorgeous Keeley Hawes is not given much to work with as a stereotypical Essex girl, Karl Johnson extracts what humour he can from the role of a superannuated hitman.

Basil Fawlty reminds us that postwar Anglo-German relations weren't just complicated by changing economic fortunes and a rapidly unfolding European project, but also by increasingly divergent ideas of what humour could and should do.

But what horrible humour there is here, too.

I wondered, for someone whose subjects have included such potentially mirthless material as the dead of the Somme and Stalker, the most solemn work of the solemn Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, what role humour performed for him?

The dark comedy that sustains the story is the subject of John Mullan's first column on the novel, in which he explores Mantel's use of her novel to push back the boundaries of what black humour can accomplish.

This is not an easy problem given the subtleties of language and meaning ("Is dark humour the same as irreverent humour?" "What is the distinction between assassin, serial killer and slasher?") not to mention the unorganised nature of the web data which is used.

The two men detest each other and that's what propels the humour of Red Dwarf.

This is Benny on the subject of humour: What makes us laugh?

It confronts with "pitch-black humour" what Welsh said were society's last taboos: incest and necrophilia.